This is already changed in R-patched: the issue is that your /bin/bash is not current (it was first reported for 2.05, I believe).
On Wed, 17 May 2006, John Powell (NIH/CIT) [E] wrote: > Building/Installing R 2.3.0 on under Solaris 2.8 > "make install" fails in the "etc" directory with an "/bin/bash" error > unexpected ";" token. The following lines in the etc/Makefile appear > to be the cause: > > EXPORTFILES = # R.exp Rlapack.exp > > > @for f in $(EXPORTFILES); do \ > $(INSTALL_DATA) $${f} "$(rhome)/$(subdir)"; \ > done > > EXPORTFILES is an empty variable. My "temporary" fix was to comment > out the three lines above and repeat "make install". -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html